__/ [ Jim ] on Sunday 10 September 2006 11:25 \__
> On or about 2006-09-10 Sunday 11:18, I did witness the following events
> concerning 7:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Web Site Owner Gets 7 Years for Piracy
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | The owner of one of the nation's largest Internet software piracy Web
>>> | sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060909/software_piracy.html?.v=1
>>>
>>> If only it was ironic that these Web sites, which in a sense promote
>>> Microsoft's agenda, are prospering owing to SPAM, which is an epidemic
>>> made possible thanks to Microsoft Windows, Outlook*, and Office design
>>> flaws.
>>>
>>> Also see:
>>>
>>> How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows
>>>
>>> ,----[ Article's summary ]
>>> | Bill Gates may not be entirely dismayed by software thieves. They
>>> | seed the world market and make Microsoft a standard.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.latimes.com/business
>> la-fi-micropiracy9apr09,0,414067.story?track=tottext
>>>
>>> Why piracy kills Open Source
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Because for them, the price is the same.
>>> |
>>> | So, please, Microsoft, defend your own products, and don't allow users
>>> | to use pirated versions. You'll be doing the best for the Open Source
>>> | products.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://youmaybeinterrupting.com/desktop.php?view&postid=12&a=apps%2FBlog
>> 3B%3B
>>
>>
>> The easiest way to defend against piracy is to sell a $0.20 dongle
>> with the $100+ product. Micoshaft is not keen to do that,
>> and therefore it should be abundantly clear to law makers and
>> governments that micoshaft had created the piratical environment
>> themselves and that they (the governments and lawmakers)
>> should take no action against pirates because
>> micoshaft themselves are responsible for the crime wave.
>>
>> Over here we have a saying that you have to tackle crime
>> and the causes of crime. It is abundantly clear, microshaft
>> executives are the causes of crime in this particular matter.
>> They need to be summoned to the courts to explain
>> why they hadn't fit a $0.20 dongle to a $100+ product
>> before a court decides to hear another single case
>> of piracy bought by BSA or micoshaft.
>
> Off the subject of "piracy" for a bit, but still on securing the OS and
> local data (particularly on a laptop): I had a Zenith 286 laptop (still got
> it, actually) running DOS. What I had for that was a floppy with the /real/
> boot system on it. What lay on the hard disk was a boot partition on a 1MB
> slice, which if invoked by the lack of the real boot floppy would securely
> erase the data partition; being only a 40MB hard drive, this took a couple
> minutes (that's AT for you), during which time the system locked. The only
> way to break the lock was to coldcycle it, which would revert back to the
> kill switch. By the time it was done, the only files left on the hard drive
> were the bootstrap files and the app used with a batch script to kill the
> data partition. Pretty darn useless as far as data was concerned, all the
> lay thief would have gotten was a paperweight.
Jim,
Have a look. This is what a site shut down by the FBI looks like.
http:// ibackups.net/ (crunch space, I don't want to give the site any search
engine 'juice')
If they carry on killing pirated software, everyone will move to Linux more
quickly than ever estimated before. No more free Photoshop and Office.
Best wishes,
Roy
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